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Joan Pennington (born c. 1960) is an American former competition swimmer who won one silver and two gold medals at the
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. She qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but could not participate because of the United States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics. Pennington attended the
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, and swam for the
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team in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and
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(NCAA) competition. During her college swimming career she won eight AIAW and NCAA championships and received 28 All-American honors. She was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 1978–79. She had a two-year break from swimming from 1980 to 1982 and finally retired in 1984. She received her master's degree in health promotion and exercise science from
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, and a doctorate degree in preventive health care at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda University in California.


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List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) This is the complete list of women's World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2022. Medalists Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines. 50 metre freestyle *Medals: 100 me ...


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1960 births Living people American female backstroke swimmers American female butterfly swimmers American female medley swimmers People from Franklin, Tennessee Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games Texas Longhorns women's swimmers Vanderbilt University alumni World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games 20th-century American women {{US-swimming-bio-stub